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VOL. V NO. 81
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
OPEN REVOLT BY
TROOPS IN
EAST INDONESIA
Seize Control Of Macassar
In 45-Minute Coup
Macassar, Apr. 5. Weeks of tension over the incorporation of East Indonesia into the State of Jogjakarta burst into open revolt today when several hundred green-clad East Indonesian troops seized the Army barracks, docks and a radio station here in a 45-minute
coup.
They were led by 23-year-old captain Andi Andul Azis, a tough, thickset paratrooper who learned battle tactics in the British First Airborne Division, the "Red Devils."
some
numbered surrendered.
Nationalist
forces
THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1950.
FIRST GIFT BOMBERS ARRIVE
The Secretary of State for Air, Mr Arthur Henderson, shaking hands with members of the crew of the first huge: B-29 bombers touched down in England. They are joining the R.A.F. as part of the arms programme and will be 75 in strength (Central Press).
An official announcement in) The Insurgents crept silently Djakarta. the capital of the Re-into position just before the public of Indonesia, said that full moon sonic, They Breda
the rebole of
were first burst into the air over soldlers of the Royal Dutch the National Army barracks.
A few more shots and the out- Shanghai Indonesian Army still under Dutch Cummand.
Dutch Army Headquarters in Iljakarta had promised to "take coup, the Indonesian Govern- all steps" for Royal Dulch In- ment Jogjakarta arrested donesian Army troops at Sultan Hamid Al Kadri II. Macassar. to return to and re Minister without Portfolio and main In their garrisons, the head of the West Borneo State. announcement cold.
and charged him with backing the Westerling revolt in Janu
The local Dutch Commander at Marnar ordered Dutch troops to be confined la bor. racks during the disorders.
Caplain Azis
A lew hours before the Evacuation
ory.
AIRBORNE TROOPER
STILL NO
AGREEMENT
Captain Andi Abdul Azis, former sergeant in the Bri.ish Acheson, told
Captain Az.s told Reuter was the spearhead of the attack after the coup that his company
today.
Washington. Apr. 5.--The Mr. Dean Secretary of State,
the press today that the Chinese Communist Shanghai still
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CHAOTIC FREE FOR ALL
Paris, Apr. 5.-The broad Champs Elysoe became a littered battlefield today as truncheon-charging police and stone-throw- ing demonstrators clashed by the hundreds in front of the offices of the newspaper Figaro.
Haiphong Power Station Wrecked
Paris, Apr. 5-Vietminh insurgents yesterday sabotaged the power station Haiphong, Agence France Presso reparted to- day from Saigon.
- "All" "the" generators - were damaged by explosions, and station an emergency
had to be put into opera. tion--Reuter.
Churchill Demands High Speed
ATLANTIC PACT ORGANISATION
London, Apr. 5.-Mr Winston the Conservative Parliament today
leader, tolti
Cafe chairs and. tables were hurled through the air by screaming, shouting demonstrators, who were pushed back from Figaro's ramparts by the swirling, cutting capes of a solid wall of police.
The Communist-led demonstrators, massed in protest against Figaro's publishing of the memoirs of Otto Skorzeny, the SS colonel who rescued Mussolini in 1944, resisted the police cape attack and then truncheons came out.
EMPTY
300
In a chaotle, fron-for-all, the By an encircling movement the polies cleared the avenue lines broke and merged in a scothing batilo over hundreds for several hundred yards and of square yards, the demonstra-set up barricades. About tor shouting "Naxi Figaro." rioters regrouped and advanced,
Scorce of attackers and at-shouting. tacked were hit by stones, smhshed cafe tables and chairs. Truncheons came down, wite seized, and returned. to the heads of the police in the hands of demonstrators
Two battle lines formed. The slowly rioters' line, retreating towards the Arc de Triomphe, Scouped cups off cafe tables and with togther hurled them,
could lay anything else they their hands on
Tho vast Cafe Marignan, when the battle had swept past 11; had about 150 broken or damaged thairs
The police waited quietly, For Bey- truncheons in hand, eral hundred yards around, the, Champs Elyseo was as empty as: the
days the Germans entered Parts.
Two hours after the outbreak. the fashionable Champa. Elysse was Rimin quiet. No figure of the numbers-- arrested or in- jured was immed ataly avail- able.-Reuter.
piled outside America May
amidst dunes of smashed glass and china.
Pull Out
said the only First Airborne
London, Apr. 5.-The Foreign Office said to- Division, com- reason for his coup was to manded A company of the authorities in
for day that urgent representations have been received "keep former Repubilcan troops former Netherlands Indies have not agreed to plans out of East Indonesia." He has Army, which was transferred to the
evacuation
2,000 from British commercial interests in China who been summoned to Djakarta to the
Indonesian Nationalist foreigners from the city.
claim they face ruination as a result of the Chinese Nationalist "answer for his deeds."
exactions and the Army last week.
Indicated that Communists' Mr Acheson The Department 15 proceeding blockade of the China Coast.
Com- munists finally un the theory that the
POLICE FALL BACK London representatives of British business in- will gree 10
After about 20 minutes, both the lown foreigners
terests in China estimated that at the present rate
Washington, Apr," 5. The "We were forced to take this ferry
1o an offshore
around the Secretary of State, Mr Dean nction to prevent Jogjakarta Yanetse River
where they could of drawing upon their sterling reserves even thene thought It "lamentable" that sides regrouped. The police fell
greater progress had not boen back to positions
Today followed by Acheson, said
that the Figaro's office, Republican troops coming
by deep up
made in forming a front since derisive howls and a hall of State
WES Department
con- water biggest commercial firms in China would be East
sidering reducing its diplomatic the Atlantic Pact was signed.stunes. limidated within another six weeks.
staffs In the Sovia! satellite One policeman. had a trun- was commenting atement by the Defence in-theon in one hand and a cash countries of Eastern Europe be- other. Another limped cause it had become increasing- Mr Emanuel
Shinwell, in the bout the recent meciing of the long on the shoulders of two ty difficult for them to operate. that the Mr Acheson sald comrades. North Atlantic Defence Com
photographer State Department was examin- An Americani
each of in mittee at The Hague,
was hit on the back of the head. ing the situation
afood these countries. Foreign holidaymakers
He was asked about specific
warn the
.avoint
The pricing began two hours Ixfore two ships were due hero with 000 Nationalist Army rein- forcements, When one of the ships arrived off the port, Major Cartwright, the United Nations inilitary observer, went out 101 Best Indonesia. They call them- picked it with a letter to
National Army, but selves the Commander of the reinforce serve.
still have Jogjakarta ments of possible bloodshed if they
"he declared. badges," he the troops tried to land.
Today's revon was the second The ictier was signe by uprising in Indonesia flue your Lieutenant Cojunel A. J. Moko-But today Captain Az's, a quiet rinta, the local Commander of epolten, polite man, emphasised the Indonesian National (Feder- that his coup hnd nothing i di al) Army, who had been cap with the Westerling movement
"We merely want to tured with his Chiet of Staf and other omcers after a brief East Indonesia," he said.-Reu scuffle at his hone,
E
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ter.
ker
Pensela.
had ar United States The ranged to have a large commer- elal vessel of-Dutch registry to te of the Yangtse lo pick up
and
Two cargo, passengers
aynilable [21 ther ships are
the and when Hongkong ir Shanghai Communists approve the ferrying arrangements, - United Press.
Two Sides Of A Fence
CAUTIONARY measures by the Water
Authority, seeking to conserve the Colony's reservoir supplies as far as possible without unduly inconveniencing consumers, are not in any proper sense спине fоr alarm, They do present in invitation to public co-operation, possibly for the citizens' own good. The year is Time for anxiety has not yet young. htrived. Should that contingency develop, however, restrictions must automatically become ruthless, and those who see fit to ignore injunctions against water waste now may discover potent reason to regret be If it cannot thoughtlessness, even placed on the level of simple selfishness. The attitude of many persons is incompre- hensible-based apparently on the strange principle that as water la paid for, the quantity used is entirely individual choice. Such people, very likely, were not in the Colony in 1929, twenty-one years ago, when reservoirs were so depleted that brick tanks had to be bullt on the water- front, and every steamer running into Hongkong was almost implored to bring water in balinst tanks from ports as far away as Singapore. Possibly, further- more, they do not attempt to analyse the gravity of the problem should this area bo similarly drought-stricken once again. In 1929, the population of the Colony did not exceed 800,000 and a sufficient sense of crisis was engendered by the necessity for catering for that
Today, number. estimates of population figures vary from 1,800,000 to 3,000,000, and It would prob ably be not far wrong if a total of 2,500,000 was accepted as approximately accurate. Recurrence of the events of 21 years ago would not create a mere prob lém. The situation might all too easily become desperate. The most readily. accessible supplies, In these days'of high power politics and upheaval, wou'd he
or
ctio
Manila, 600 miles away, and Singapore, 1,100. In addition, steamer traffic between these ports and Hongkong is trilling by comparison with the halcyon days of the te 20's. Nothing less than the chartering of inrge oil tankers-wou.d make ellective on the task of meeting impression
unimum requirements. In short, whether not such forebodings prove to be Justified, it remains the duty of every
fully with citizen to co-operate Government, take specific steps to prevent waste in any form, and put that possible day off as long as it is fensible. On its part, it is incumbent on the Government to make up Its mind where and when new resources within the Colony can be im- pounded. Passing references during the recent budget debate offered `nin encourage- ment. The Tai Lam Chung Valley scheme has been found, suddenly, to be virtually impracticable, except at prohibitive cost, and
would make then it appreciable contribution for more than seven years. Excuse for this late discovery was not offered, perhaps because of in- ward realisation that the critics wou.d blaze forth. After all, Tai Lam Chung was hot a schemo recently projected Surveys were carried out before the war. and extensive drilling and a geophysical survey were commenced in 1946. To pro claim in March, 1950, that faults have been found prejudicing every decision to proceed with the original programme, blundered, and suggests that some-one pretty profoundly. Criticism, however, does not alter the plain fact, that the Government has had plenty of fore warning on the need for extension of the Colony's water resources, and the time to start is long past. Government campaigns for public spirit to ensur" conservation. zith, we hope, a favourable response. “ut setion should be mutual; t
even
nu
he
Ho
ster,
on a
con
The Foreign Office said every Jects, hard hit by Chinese Cum- consideration is being given to munist taxation and repressive 10 Icove by Pines9
methods, representations made
China. They claim they arr China Association, which is
ot being kept virtually as hostages. hosty representative
Businesmen said that British British firms in China, but sa far no way has been found of firms in China are being com-
"Is it not lamentable," Mr elied to retain their emolovers "teking effective action to im-
on full pay even it their businese Churchill asked, "that with all bewildered in doorways. prove the situnion."
hese meetings of great
In the debris lay the frag-reports that by June the United 3 completely at a standstil
glass doors States Mission in Budapest and equence between the most iments of the huge
of the Marignan Cinema.
Bucharest would be 50 percent. They wild they no longer have
people of movement and portant the freedom
different
were on Several demonstrators were smaller than they hat as a precondition for ap- parts of the world, so little real
on strotchers to the March 1 of this year and that Peking govern-plications
should have elsewhere vrogress
been carried
In Prague and "command station." No the Embassies ment 03
03 January 6.
Injured polleemen Warsaw had been asked to cut made in making a front and a acfence in much more than 12
their staffs to the minimum. were have cloped waths which
Vans of police reinforcements He replied that he had no since the Allanile Pact WDE
were hurriedly summoned to do.allod information about dates supplement the already heavily or on the size of reductions, it guarded building for this second they were to be made-Reu- battle around Figaro in a week. ter.
Omcists admitted that there has been no improvement in the situation since Bri ain FC-
Tognised the
io move
Mr J. C. Hutchison, British they must produce proof that Charge d'Affaires in Peking, hnd they have settled accounts with heir employees. This is vir ought to make representations
!r4
hos
In
was not easy to set up an or
the Chinese Communist govtually impossible to obtain,
signed?" According to the most conser had two Proment. He
ative estimates the British Army Melal meetings with officials of the Chinese Foreign Office. The collectively have expended about fre
on March 3 and the £160,000,000 from their reserves which have been expended by second on March 17.
from London- not yet remittances Mr Hutchison has
received by Pexing's, United Press. been
Chou En-lai Coreign Minister
Was
or has ha presented his creden- alls to Mao Tze-tung as Chair- of the Chinese People's Government Council.
man
It was understood that Mr Hutchison's only source of in- formation regarding the Peking Government's pulley has been the Embassy of an through
European Communist satellite
power.
The Foreign Office said as far as can be ascertained the British relations with Peking are still In- at a "procedural stuge." creasingly urgent pleas are be ing received from Shanghai for facilities to en...le British sub-
Easter Holiday
Tomorrow
being Good Friday, there will be no issue of the Hong- kong Telegraph.
Publication will be resumed on Saturday, when there will be a special edition carrying the result of the draw on the Derby Sweep,
Tory Assault On
Mr Shinwell retorted that it ganization of this nature, which cumprises 12 countries-sora
Bore not very powerful, powerful-with many varied interests.
50
No one knew this better than Mr Churchill-he had rather a lter experience of what ranspired at the beginning of he last war, Mr Shinwell add- ed.
Plans for the next step were being well considered and well thought out and substantial pro- gress was being made, he said. “I quite
agree that substantial Progress
a plati- bounds like ude, but I hope to dispose of platitude as soon as it is possible to give this House and all the countries concerned full-
r information."-Reuter.
Government's
Failures In Malaya
for
the government ad-1 discarded real strategie London, Apr. 5.-Con-1" today
*ssentials. servative members of Parmits. they are dealing with a Krowing wor which is the main
Sir Keith Murdoch, chalrman liament were marshalling cause of "Inordinate" defence of the Melbourne Herald and their forces and facts today xpenditure.
associated newspapers. voiced for Thursday's assault on to show that the collectivo cost from Singapers
Opposition speakers will seek
parallel opinion in a report to the Dally the government's conduct
of the Malaya campaign is in
Telegraph on Wednesday. of the Malaya campaign, the of £100,000,000 an-
region, while the Tory Press de-nually, which is more than He said he was "aghart" at the damage done in Malaya by clared that the damage in Britain can bear alone,
Conservative members intend Britain's recognition of Com- Malaya is due largely to to press for greater Common-munist China. He sakl: "The Pritain's recognition of the wealth participation in *he Chinese, so peceRTATY for our Chinese Communist Peking Malaya campaign with sugges cause. could feel the knife
ilons that Australian troops slipping across their throats, government.
Mr LD. Gommake will open should be sent to Singapore. He warned that. If Indo-Chinit. the debate, charging that, for. Their contention la that the mes Communist Slam would
security
of Malaya is vital to vint ha able to resist. Communist hearly two years. the British people have been told that the Commonwealth security and pressure, even if Communist fighting in Malaya is against that to such perilous emergency, China remained within her own “a handful of terrorists,” where-local requirements “should os borders-United. Prese
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